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It looks like Seismo is photo bombing Maia. More from my visit at the Dinosaur Center: [ youtube video ]
2015: For years, researchers have been studying the remains hauled out of the fossil bed, comparing bones from specimens of different ages and both sexes in order to create — for the first time — a complete life history of an extinct dinosaur. “This is a dramatic step forward, from studying fossilized creatures as single individuals to understanding their life cycle,” said Dr. Jack Horner of Montana State University, in a press statement.
“We are moving away from the novelty of a single instance to looking at a population of dinosaurs in the same way we look at populations of animals today.”
Horner was part of the team that first discovered the bone bed in the late 1970s, buried under hundreds of acres of mudstone and volcanic ash that had blanketed part of Montana in the Late Cretaceous.
Maiasaura is a large herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur genus that lived in the area currently covered by the state of Montana and the province of Alberta, Canada in the Upper Cretaceous Period, about 76.7 million years ago. https://mtdinotrail.org/maiasaura/
https://www.nps.gov/articles/mesozoic-e ... n-2014.htm
There is also the Old Trail Museum in Choteau, just down the road.
2015: For years, researchers have been studying the remains hauled out of the fossil bed, comparing bones from specimens of different ages and both sexes in order to create — for the first time — a complete life history of an extinct dinosaur. “This is a dramatic step forward, from studying fossilized creatures as single individuals to understanding their life cycle,” said Dr. Jack Horner of Montana State University, in a press statement.
“We are moving away from the novelty of a single instance to looking at a population of dinosaurs in the same way we look at populations of animals today.”
Horner was part of the team that first discovered the bone bed in the late 1970s, buried under hundreds of acres of mudstone and volcanic ash that had blanketed part of Montana in the Late Cretaceous.
Maiasaura is a large herbivorous saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur genus that lived in the area currently covered by the state of Montana and the province of Alberta, Canada in the Upper Cretaceous Period, about 76.7 million years ago. https://mtdinotrail.org/maiasaura/
https://www.nps.gov/articles/mesozoic-e ... n-2014.htm
There is also the Old Trail Museum in Choteau, just down the road.